Records of Edna Baker on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Edna Baker in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Edna Baker and the Baker Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Baker Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Baker family tree.

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Baker Family Tree Databases

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Miscellaneous Baker Databases

Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Edna Baker. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Edna Baker

Edna Dean Baker

Edna Dean Baker (1883–1956) was an educator, author, co-founder of Baker Demonstration School, and President of the National Kindergarten and Elementary College (later to become National-Louis University) from 1920 to 1949. She was an early advocate for kindergarten style early childhood education in the United States.

Born in Normal, Illinois, her family moved to Washington state when she was six years old. After graduating from Watcom High School in Bellingham, Washington in 1902, she moved with her family to Evanston, IL, where Edna entered Northwestern University as a Classics Major. In 1904 after her father's death. she transferred to Chicago Kindergarten College (Later the National Kindergarten and Elementary College) to pursue a career as a kindergarten teacher. She graduated with a Bachelor's in Education from the National Kindergarten College in 1913, and returned to Northwestern University to earn a bachelor's degree in 1920 and a Master's degree in 1921.

While pursuing her studies at the National Kindergarten and Elementary College, Edna and her sister, Clara Belle Baker, served as co-directors of the Evanston Elementary school, a private elementary school in Evanston, Illinois. Both would later co-found Baker Demonstration School as the demonstration school for the National Kindergarten and Elementary College.

Recognized in her time as a progressive educator, Baker was listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who Among College Presidents, American Women, and Principal Women of America.

Baker was the author of several books, including The Beginner’s Book in Religion, Parenthood and Child Nurture, Kindergarten Method in the Church Schools, The Worship of the Little Child, and A Child is Born.

Source: Edna Dean Baker, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Baker

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